Stefania Strouza

Stefania Strouza is a visual artist whose practice explores how cultural narratives of diverse epochs connect to produce new identity projects. It examines the exchange of forms and symbols across large distances and the cross-cultural syncretisms that emerge from it. The artist materializes these ideas through sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, corporeality, and geography.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions at 2023 Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe (solo), AnnexM (solo), Plásmata II by Onassis Stegi, ARCOmadrid 2023, the 3rd Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia, Pinta Miami 2018, the Benaki Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Mykonos (a collaboration of NEON with the Whitechapel Gallery), the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, a.antonopoulou.art (solo), the Wiener Art Foundation (solo), the Neue Galerie Innsbruck (solo), the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (solo), the BOZAR in Brussels, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, among others. Strouza has received numerous accolades such as the Art Athina 2023 Award, the Inspire Prize 2021, the ARTWORKS Award (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program), the Emerging Artists Award of the National Bank of Greece, and the Diploma Award of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Princeton University, US (2016), the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany (2016), Studio Residency in Mexico City (2018) with the support of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, MANA Contemporary New Jersey, US (2019), CCA Andratx in Mallorca, Spain (2020), and ISCP, US (2021).

Stefania Strouza is a participant of the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies program for 2024/25.